![]() ![]() And Layne Staley was one sweetheart of a person who you could really see his weakness for his addiction and how much it appeared, from a distance, that he was not gonna survive it. Even Chris Cornell later, as it turned out, he had his own issues later on. ![]() It was a very interesting situation in the early '90s in Seattle, because there were a lot of those guys around that time which were all battling with their own addictions. It's finally in a good home that song found its home."Īsked if she saw Layne's death coming before he succumbed to addiction in 2002, Nancy said: "Yeah. I said, 'I'm happy to do that song on my solo album too.' It's just a song that finally found its place to live. And the guy from the record company at the time, when I was doing this new album, he said, 'Would you please put 'The Dragon' on this album?' because he loved the version that we did with ROADCASE ROYALE. And it was really a great song, and I thought it finally found a good home on that album. ![]() The album was called 'First Things First'. So later when I was on hiatus from HEART for a couple of years and I made my other band called ROADCASE ROYALE, we were recording an album and we put 'The Dragon' on that album. It was a song that never really worked inside of the HEART format - it just didn't live as a HEART song it just didn't really work for HEART for some unknown reason. She told Holland's FaceCulture about the track (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I wrote that song so long ago, in the early '90s, when I was friends - I still am friends - with ALICE IN CHAINS guys and all the Seattle explosion, all of my buddies in Seattle. "You And Me", the debut solo album from HEART's Nancy Wilson, includes the song "The Dragon", which was originally written for ALICE IN CHAINS' Layne Staley nearly three decades ago. ![]()
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